Unemployed Valkyries?

A couple mourn during a memorial service on the first anniversary of the Tempe rail disaster on February 28. The author asks what we are doing about acknowledging the message from such tragedies that something has to change. [AP]

The Valkyries would have been in the unemployment fund if they lived in modern times. No object and no purpose.

"The female commandos of Scandinavian mythology," writes Marilella Antonopoulou, editor in chief at the website Ladylike.gr. The Valkyries, flying over the scene of battle, carry the lifeless bodies of the most heroic warriors to Valhalla for the sake of their master, the god of war and death, Odin. The Valkyries were "treated by the Vikings as servants of a high cause." In a comparison between Greek and Scandinavian mythology, Valhalla is identified with the Champs Elysees. In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields were the destination of heroes and the virtuous.

But where did the Valkyries go?

In this day and age, I wonder what kind of work the Valkyries could offer? What virtuous and heroic warriors, who would fall for their country or for any other...

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